The research also sets evolutionary distinctness against the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List ranking the 575 bird species considered threatened
because a reservoir was too full Nature News reports. Normally the delta is mostly dry. Since the 1930s successive dam projects have held back the river
The goal is to dampen broad swathes of the arid Colorado river delta Nature News'Alexandra Witze writes allowing new cottonwood
Scienceinsider Nature News
#Has The Reintroduction Of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone? The story goes something like this: Once upon a time we exterminated the wolves from the Rocky mountain West including the part that would become Yellowstone national park.
Journalist Emma Marris who recently wrote about wolf/ecosystem science for the journal Nature finds that Middleton's stance aligns with a growing body of evidence.
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. There's legitimate scientific disagreement here. But I think it can't be denied that the beauty of that story plays a role in how much attention it gets.
Publlished this week in the journal Nature the strategies favor diverse approaches tailored to local conditions rather than a universal approach that ignores local cultures geographies economies and environmental realities.
nature. Now as we gaze at the heap of shredder residue he says Most people would look at this pile
Some suggest letting nature take its course. However it's not like wolves haven't been impacted by humans even on the island.
and the details of the iconic study read the story at Nature. And for a firsthand story of one scientist's work on the island check out this long feature at the Lansing State Journal. u
The idea of borrowing designs from nature is far from new particularly when it comes to flight.
As technology has advanced scientists have decoded many of nature s secrets. And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
Nature has a several-hundred-million-year lead time on us when it comes to great design says Peter Singer a fellow at the Washington D c. ased Brookings Institution.
Learning how nature creates superior sensors could lead to lighter smarter drones. And as that happens their range of applications will grow.
and not exactly easy to procur for your average researcher--the three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus) used in this study were found in a Panamanian nature reserve.
and wildlife campaigners would raise awareness within China of the dramatic scale of elephant poaching the New york times reported:
n Samper president and chief executive of the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a statement that the society congratulated the Chinese government for showing the world that elephant poaching
Patrick Bergin chief executive of the African Wildlife Foundation described the event as a courageous and critical first step by China to elevate the important issue of wildlife trafficking
The mangroves'march up the coast as far north as St augustine Fla. is a striking example of one way climate change's impacts show up in nature.
Both provide crucial habitat for wildlife including endangered species and commercially valuable fish and shellfish.
In a study to appear in the December 22 issue of the journal Nature the team constructed an evolutionary tree of more than 32000 species of flowering plants--the largest time-scaled evolutionary tree to date.
and corn--may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers'fields according to University of Nebraska-Lincoln research published this week in Nature Communications.
The researchers analysis#oeruminants Climate Change and Climate Policy#is being published today as an opinion commentary in Nature Climate Change a professional journal.
and environmental conservation involving water quality wildlife habitat and biodiversity#he explained. Agricultural researchers are also studying methane reduction through improved animal genetics
and reproduce optimally in a specific niche in nature which may explain why different strains of Toxoplasma have such varying effects in different organisms.
and connections are strengthening between nature and humans. Liu also shows there's more to this than trade.
and nature and that it is imperative to tackle the drivers of climate change namely greenhouse gases.
and Cameroon were identified as having more optimal combinations of high carbon stocking potential high co-benefits for wildlife conservation and humans and high feasibility.
and doesn't endanger the health of the rest of the Island has been a major challenge for wildlife biologists.
and Wildlife Medicine reports that the Conservancy's contraception program proved effective in managing the herd's numbers.
and wildlife management and a co-author of the contraception study. We launched the contraceptive program
and analyzeda new study published in Nature today describes the sugar beet reference genome sequence generated by researchers both from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) the Max Planck Institute for Molecular genetics and the University of Bielefeld in cooperation
The results of the study that will be published today in Nature shed also light on how the genome has been shaped by artificial selection.
what nature dishes out said Stallard a staunch proponent of the sponge effect who is seen often wearing Sponge Bob socks.
The british Medical Journal traditionally publishes a Christmas issue containing a number of articles of a lighthearted nature.
In cooperation with the Oregon Zoo and local wildlife agencies Varner has helped begin a citizen science program in the Columbia river Gorge so local hikers can help monitor the pikas.
#Saving Fijis coral reefs linked to forest conservation upstreamthe health of coral reefs offshore depend on the protection of forests near the sea according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society that outlines the importance of terrestrial protected areas
Stacy Jupiter of the Wildlife Conservation Society; and Matthew Watts and Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland.
The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
and other wildlife unearthed near Quanhucan the research team demonstrated how a breed of once-wild cats carved a niche for themselves in a society that thrived on the widespread cultivation of the grain millet.
Quality and quantity of alpine grasses and herbs ultimately affect the vitality of The swiss wildlife icon.
and resulted from a strictly regulated hunting program of the Department of Wildlife and Fishery Service in Chur.
and document its hunting explains wildlife biologist Lucie Greuter of the Wildlife and Fishery Department in Chur.
Kurt Bollmann wildlife biologist at WSL and co-author of the study remarks: Until now we have not found any conceivable indication that hunting may influence horn growth.
Finland still has a small nitrogen loadfour monitoring areas located in Finnish nature reserves were covered by the research.
#Environmental history key to future of Englands wildlifeprotecting and enhancing our wildlife for future generations will need radical new policies informed by history as much as science according to an academic at the University of East Anglia.
Landscape historian Prof Tom Williamson suggests that far from being'natural'nature and the countryside have for centuries largely been the consequence of the activities of humans.
In his new book An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650--1950 Prof Williamson examines how the number
and enhance our wildlife for future generations will involve some hard thinking and the formulation of radical new policies.
For this we may need an historical perspective on England's wildlife almost as much as a scientific one.
But problems over the definition of'nature'underlie many current issues in conservation. In truth rural landscapes as much as urban ones are largely or entirely artificial in character the creation of particular social economic and technological circumstances.
What remains certain is that nature has existed never outside of or independent from the activities of men.
and in terms of wildlife conservation More heaths downs and wetlands are required certainly simply to ensure healthy populations of birds like the stone curlew as well as to sustain a wide range of endangered plants.
however we are of course effectively farming wildlife as we now so often do on nature reserves
and in other contexts rather than watching wildlife adapt--as it has done always in the past--to changes wrought to the environment primarily for our own practical and economic benefit.
Many forces of nature work against their anchorage in the soil. Human intervention in coastal areas and climate change also make life difficult for mangrove seedlings.
For successful management and restoration of mangrove forests good understanding of the interaction between vegetation soil and the forces of nature is required.
berry funguswe know more about wildlife this week thanks to research by two Canadian teens.
which does not bode well for local berry pickers or wildlife. This year there is tons of rust on the plants
Both teens had plenty of exposure to nature as kids. Young was a member of the Macoun Field Club an Ottawa club for youth who love nature.
Daust grew up in an off-grid cabin in the forests of central B c.;without computer access his questions came from the wildlife around him.
Both teen scientists recommend teens should try doing a science fair project on a problem that matters to them.
#New recommendations promote nature conservation in Barents Regioncoordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute the Barents Protected Area Network (BPAN) project involved an analysis of the current status of and gaps in the network of protected
They seek to conserve sufficient pristine nature in order to bring a halt to the destruction of species and ecosystems in line with goals of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
Protected area analyses for the project were conducted through cooperation between Metsã¤hallitus Natural Heritage Services research and scientific institutes of the participant countries and nature conservation organisations.
Joint nature conservation work coordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute was begun in 1997. Over the years a large amount of information has been generated on valuable natural areas
Such areas include the Onezhskoye Pomorye National park on the Onega Peninsula in the Arkhangelsk Region the Kalevala National park in the Republic of Karelia and the Lapland Forest Nature Reserve in the Murmansk Region.
which was completed in 2011 are included now in the regional and national nature conservation plans. Accordingly the results of the Barents Protected Area Network project will be presented internationally nationally and regionally in 2014.
They will be presented at the World Parks Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Planned protected areas included in the national and regional nature conservation plans should be established as statutory protected areas.
and wildlife. The results of this new study show that seemingly imperceptible changes to the land add up in ways that can significantly enhance
and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim has studied villages at various distances from Serengeti National park in Tanzania to see how people interact with the wildlife
and protect the wildlife in the area and are given also the sense that this is important to themselves as well says Mwakatobe.
The conflicts arise over attacks on wildlife raids on crops disease and use of bushmeat.
Health authorities wildlife managers and cattle owners must work together to stop zoonotic tuberculosis in Namwala and the bordering areas in Kafue.
and their random nature argues for a perfect storm scenario the study said. It is now clear that salmonella
We are the first to clearly identify the plasmonic nature of this terahertz response he said.
Nor is it stopping either at the boundaries of famous nature reserves like Torres del Paine
#Feeding by tourists compromises health of already-endangered iguanas, study findsfeeding wildlife is an increasingly common tourist activity
Instead wildlife managers could approach manufacturers of pelleted iguana foods and request specially-formulated food to mitigate the impact of unhealthy food.
We urge serious discussions among wildlife managers and stakeholders to identify tactics that mitigate the impacts of current tourism practices without compromising an important economic activity.
--or services that nature provides to humans that have both economic and biological value such as drinking water
In nature laying eggs on oranges is advantageous because parasitoid wasps feeding on the larvae of Drosophila avoid citrus fruits.
#In nature a considerable proportion of Drosophila larvae are killed by enemies mainly parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs inside the larvae.
Ring-tailed lemurs are listed now as an endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission.
#Catastrophic collapse of Sahara deserts wildlifea new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Zoological Society or London warns that the world's largest tropical desert the Sahara has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations.
The study by more than 40 authors representing 28 scientific organizations assessed 14 desert species and found that a shocking half of those are regionally extinct or confined to one percent or less of their historical range.
Niger has established just the massive 97000 square kilometer (37451 square miles) Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve
The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
The research is published in the online journal Nature Communications with related research published in Theoretical and Applied Genetics.
#Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structureit has been said that nature provides us with everything that we need.
But finally with aluminum nature has given us something we can exploit Nordlander said. The second paper by Nordlander and his group predicts quantum effects in plasmonic aluminum that are stronger than those in an analogous gold structure
The new forest areas would also provide regional economic and environmental benefits by not only improving water quality but also wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities.
The loss of usable habitat is attributed to both forest fragmentation and poaching according to a new study by University of Georgia University of Maryland the Wildlife Conservation Society ICCN (Congolese Wildlife Authority
) African Wildlife Foundation Zoological Society of Milwaukee World Wildlife Fund Max Planck Institute Lukuru Foundation University of Stirling Kyoto University and other groups.
and achieve the desired results said Ashley Vosper of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Bonobos are probably the least understood great ape in Africa so this paper is pivotal in increasing our knowledge and understanding of this beautiful and charismatic animal.
In 2012 the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) and the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) published a report titled Bonobo (Pan paniscus:
The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
In a paper published in Wildlife Society Bulletin entitled Perceived Efficacy of Livestock-Guarding Dogs in South africa:
The research results have been published online in Nature Communications. Trees are the lungs of the earth for that they can fix CO2--the major greenhouse gas--more efficiently.
The conformal nature of the coating process allowed us to generate ceramic replicas that retained even tiny surface features on the starting pollen grains.
The layer-by-layer nature of the coating process allowed for control of the amount of magnetic material and the magnetic properties of the pollen replicas.
The findings are published online today in Nature. We were able to take advantage of detailed studies
The study is published in the journal Nature Conservation. Land use in these parts of Northern europe has changed markedly with key butterfly habitats such as hay meadows disappearing at alarming rates.
In research published in the journal nature in 2010 Wayne and colleagues reported that dogs seem to share more genetic similarity with living Middle Eastern gray wolves than with any other wolf population
#U s. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes stockpiled illegal elephant ivorythe Wildlife Conservation Society's President and CEO Cristiã¡
n Samper today issued a statement in connection with a U s. Fish and Wildlife Service event in Denver CO at
Samper one of eight members of the Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking appointed by President Obama
and providing it with ongoing advice and assistance on the issue of wildlife trafficking. WCS recently launched 96 Elephants a public outreach campaign aiming to bolster elephant protection
and Wildlife Service takes the unprecedented step of pulverizing nearly six tons of elephant ivory stored at the National Wildlife Property Repository in Colorado.
I encourage everyone to join the campaign at 96elephants. org to help us enact a moratorium on ivory trade within the U s. Story Source The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society.
However the new research which is published in Nature Communications reveals morphological and genetic evidence for management of cattle in north-eastern China around 10000 years ago around the same time the first domestication of taurine
and Cerrado biomes a team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and a local partner NGO Instituto Quinta do discovered Sol ancient cave drawings made by hunter-gatherer societies thousands
Our work with the Wildlife Conservation Society focuses on promoting sustainable land use practices that help protect important wildlife species
so that the cultural heritage and wildlife depicted in the drawings are preserved for future generations. Story Source:
The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length g
ZSL and Imperial College London conservationists will continue to study the effects of logging on wildlife populations looking more broadly than just the highly charismatic cats towards other mammal species both large and small.
The samples--which were collected by study co-author Rebecca Mcculley a grassland ecologist at the University of Kentucky--came largely from nature preserves and old cemeteries.
Burmese pythons devastate local wildlife in the Everglades. These are invasive species: nonnative animals and plants carried by people into new locations that take hold disrupting
which was conducted by a team of plant scientists from the United states and China and published Oct 18 in Nature Communications.
#King of beasts losing ground in Ugandas paradiseconservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of St andrews warn that Uganda's African lions--a mainstay of the country's tourism industry
The species is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature but there is a current proposal to list the species as Endangered under the U s. Endangered Species Act because of the continuing global declines.
The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
and wildlife habitat the report said. It is covered by floodway easement held by the state of California making other land uses subservient to flood control Agriculture is a major land use in the bypass with rice the primary crop.
and have published their findings in the journal Nature Communications. The eucalypt acts as a hydraulic pump--its roots extend tens of metres into the ground
#Camera traps reveal Andean bears hate paparazzia series of camera-trap images released by the Wildlife Conservation Society today shows rare Andean bears acting like angry Hollywood celebrities--at least
and other wildlife in Apolobamba National Natural Area of Integrated Management--a Bolivian protected area that borders Madidi National park and Natural Area of Integrated Management considered one of the world
and wildlife including Andean bears including road construction logging unsustainable natural resource use and agricultural expansion. In addition WCS conserves the Andean bear across its range from Ecuador to Venezuela.
and mitigate a variety of threats to them including human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction for agriculturewcs's conservation research in Bolivia has been made possible by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation the blue moon fund the Beneficia
The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length g
or near the Arabian peninsula and the historical deadly nature of the 2002 outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus create further anxiety about the emergency of PEDV in the United states due to the lack of scientific information about the origin
but it's a particular problem in Africa where wildlife that harbor the virus are thought to pass it on to their domesticated cousins.
Few wildlife species face more potential conflicts with humankind than tigers which require large areas for hunting
and Jhamak Karki of Nepal's Department of National parks and Wildlife Conservation. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Maryland.
#Large-scale deep re-sequencing reveals cucumbers evolutionary enigmain a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) BGI
In both cases the key is to understand how the people who live near the valued wildlife are faring as well.
Then he published a paper in Science magazine showing that panda habitat was being destroyed quicker inside the world's most high-profile protected nature reserve than in adjacent areas of China that are protected not enabling the Chinese to realign their policies.
In nature oil storage is the job of seeds where the energy-dense compounds provide nourishment for developing plant embryos.
which automatically qualifies them for inclusion in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The problem say the authors is that these species are so rare that scientists may never find them.
Field margins play an important role in creating areas of habitat to support wildlife and wild plants species. But the increasing demand for agricultural land to provide enough crops to feed
and support the growing population is putting pressure on these little pockets of wild nature.
As popular support for wildlife continues to grow gardeners are increasingly looking for ways to help bees
As part of this effort the research team led by wildlife technical assistant Samantha Carpenter and wildlife veterinary epidemiologist Nohra Mateus-Pinilla both with the natural history survey and U. of
and wildlife are being exposed to in different watersheds. More research is needed to understand the factors that contribute to the river otters'exposure to these chemicals Mateus-Pinilla said.
what humans and wildlife are exposed to in eastern or western North america. The research team also included Illinois pathobiology professor Kuldeep Singh Robert Bluett of the Illinois Department of Natural resources and Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips and Nelda Rivera both of the natural history survey.
I. The U s. Fish & Wildlife Service Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Project W-146-R and the natural history survey provided funding for this research.
Tour's breakthrough unzipping technique for turning multiwalled carbon nanotubes into GNRS first revealed in Nature in 2009 has been licensed for industrial production.
and Jun Lou appears today in the online journal Nature Communications. Oxidation prevention is already big business
#Grains fumigated ecologicallya substance present in nature turned out to be just as effective as other chemical compounds to eradicate harmful organisms in stored grains without negative effects.
In the United states the well-established toxicity of Se to wildlife and humans has resulted in this element being regulated by the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Clean Water Act.
Study results appear online Oct 2 in Nature. Until now no one had a clue about which olfactory receptor insects used to avoid DEET said Anandasankar Ray an associate professor of entomology who led the research team.
The results of the study will be published in the journal Nature Communications on 1 october 2013. Post began his observations on the relationship between the timing of caribou calving and the start of the plant-growing season in Greenland 20 years ago.
#Wildlife face Armageddon as forests shrinkspecies living in rainforest fragments could be far more likely to disappear than was thought previously says an international team of scientists.
It's vital that we understand what happens to species in forest fragments said Antony Lynam of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
If they persist for many decades this gives conservationists a window of time to create wildlife corridors
and invading species can be fatal for native wildlife said Lynam. And that's frightening because invaders are increasing in disturbed and fragmented habitats around the world.
The bottom line is that we must conserve large intact habitats for nature said Gibson. That's the only way we can ensure biodiversity will survive.
which was published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change. As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large-scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters
or virtual replacements that some people feel are more personal than a memorial in a cemetery or in nature.
The study is being published in Nature Communications. A tendency that is spreadingwhile the process has been going on in densely populated developed countries for a long time it has accelerated also in recent times in less well-developed countries and societies
which nature uses to breakdown the cell walls of wood fiber and which some day may be used in biomass conversion processes for energy and sustainable biomaterials production.
At this stage there are several hypotheses as to the nature of the mechanism but it is very likely that Busseola fusca has developed an unconventional resistance mechanism yet to be identified.
The next step is to see how we might be able to mimic nature with this new motif we discovered Yarger says.
The research supported by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant took place at Moor House National Nature Reserve high up in the North Pennines a long-term ecological monitoring site for the UK Environmental Change Network.
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011